Hellooooo!

Stella was pacing. She may have gone a little soft but not today. The team had been at the ware house for a week now, following the same pattern. The boys, and Frank, would be woken up at 5:30 and sent to do a morning running session to 'wake them up for the day'. Dan didn't mind but Joe and Frank did. The girls however, would be woken up at 5:45 and made to prepare breakfast for everyone. At 6:30, everyone would meet up and have breakfast. Half an hour later they would be split up according to age and gender. Frank was in the men's 30+, Joe and Dan were men's under 30 and Keri and Neish were in Woman under 30.

Keri and Neish were being trained on PHASE RED. This included

Basic tactical training

Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense

Physical Fitness Test

On the first day they were also given haircuts, making their hair super short, something neither was happy about.

Dan and Joe were being trained on PHASE WHITE, being told they didn't need to do PHASE RED. That included:

Tactical Foot Marches

Basic Rifle Marksmanship

Situational Training Exercises

Field Training Exercises

Real Life Obstacle

What were they training them for, the army?

Frank on the other hand, had been forced to skip both of these and do PHASE BLUE. That included:

Weapons Training (.50 Caliber M2), (Hand Grenades), (M136 AT-4), (M240B Machine Gun), (M249 Machine Gun)

Field Training Exercise 3

Tactical Foot Marches (10KM and 15KM)

Again, like the girls, Frank, Joe and Dan had all had their heads shaved something Dan really wasn't happy about. Tom just laughed at the pain. At about 1ish, they would all meet together to have a sandwich for lunch before being forced back to training. Apparently dinner wasn't included and they all went to bed at 10, having no rest. The same would happen again and again. By the end of the week, everyone was tired – they couldn't let it show though. Well, that was the plan until Joe collapsed in the middle of afternoon training.

It was Tom who had been on Coms at the time. The only reason he knew Joe had collapsed was the screen for Joe's eye contacts had blacked out and on Coms he could heard a lot of panicking.

"Joe! Joe!" Tom shouted down Coms. Usually, if someone shouts at the TV, no one on the TV can hear you but with Coms, it wasn't a problem. Just after Stella arrived to the base, Joe began to wake up. "Mate, you okay? Blink once for yes, twice for no," Tom slowly explained. Joe followed and blinked twice.

"Shit," Stella mumbled. That was when she began pacing. "It was going to be tough, I knew that, but not this bad. I shouldn't have sent them," She said, obviously blaming herself.

"You're supposed to be the strong one!" Tom joked, trying to lighten the mood but failing terribly. He turned back to the screen but decided to watch Dan's eye contacts, knowing he'd get a view of what was going on. Joe was being pulled up by someone and being dragged off. He could see that Joe was being dragged through numerous corridors before being chucked into a room.

"Weakling!" A man shouted at Joe. "If you can't survive one week of training, you are no use to me!" The man pointed a gun at Joe.

"Please," Joe begged, the contact camera screen became blurry, probably from tears.

"Why? Why should I not kill you? You are no use to me and I can't trust you not to blab if I let you go!" The man shouted.

"I will try; I will keep going if it kills me. Please, give me a chance," Joe begged.

"Ugh, fine," The man said, giving up. He put the gun down but pushed Joe on to the floor and kicked Joe in the ribs hard, making a cracking sound. Joe got up and ran off, to his living quarts. The scene had left Stella shocked, tears forming in her eyes.

"Joe! Are you okay?" Tom asked.

"I…think a…rib is…broken," Joe said, in between gulps for breath.

"Joe, breathe. In, out, in, out," Tom instructed him. Tom wasn't good with this sort of stuff but he knew if Joe didn't sort out his breathing, he would pass out again. A couple of minutes later and Joe had sorted out his breathing.

"Joe, get some sleep," Tom told him. Joe did so and Tom faced Stella. "Don't worry, we will go in earlier."

"It is weird, they haven't attacked us yet." No, they hadn't.

xoxhopiexox, I will put DERI in soon, maybe…